slab: fix slab accounting imbalance due to defer_deactivate_slab()

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Since commit af92793e52 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and
kfree_nolock().") there's a possibility in alloc_single_from_new_slab()
that we discard the newly allocated slab if we can't spin and we fail to
trylock. As a result we don't perform inc_slabs_node() later in the
function. Instead we perform a deferred deactivate_slab() which can
either put the unacounted slab on partial list, or discard it
immediately while performing dec_slabs_node(). Either way will cause an
accounting imbalance.

Fix this by not marking the slab as frozen, and using free_slab()
instead of deactivate_slab() for non-frozen slabs in
free_deferred_objects(). For CONFIG_SLUB_TINY, that's the only possible
case. By not using discard_slab() we avoid dec_slabs_node().

Fixes: af92793e52 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023-fix-slab-accounting-v2-1-0e62d50986ea@suse.cz
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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Vlastimil Babka 2025-10-23 14:01:07 +02:00

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